Over the summer, the 43-year-old mother had exhausted every avenue to find her teenage son the mental health care he badly needed as his behavior spiraled to alarming and dangerous levels. The ...

When Heather Preston adopted her two sons, finding them care became her full-time job. After the siblings, whom Preston adopted from foster care, moved from a small southern Iowa town into her Des ...

There is a deep-seated distrust of the child welfare system within the Black community, stemming from a history of racial bias and systemic inequities. The fear of children being “snatched up” by “the ...

I oversee The Plain Dealer's computer-assisted reporting program and am a longtime investigative journalist who has spent much of my 20 years in the business covering health care issues. Before coming ...

A reporter seeks answers on the use of residential treatment programs nationwide — and the rationale for sending kids away ...

The academic in me is never going to say causality,” said Harvard's Jeremy Faust. “But the person with a functioning brain is ...

Asian Americans are disproportionately affected by hepatitis B, especially by chronic infections. Years of community work ...

The growing movement to combat deeply entrenched inequities in health care has run up against massive roadblocks, as the Trump administration guts funding and support for federal health equity ...

Michelle Levander is the founding director of the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism. Since she launched the Center in 2004, the ...

Last year, I spoke with an Iowa mother who found her then-6-year-old son attempting to take his own life during a monthslong ...

I'm one of the founding journalists at the USC Center for Health Reporting, a new program created to help improve health reporting in communities across California. We work with newspapers and other ...